You've basically just re-defined intelligence as selfishness.
It's paid, but (at least in my case) doesn't pay that much. It's barely enough to live off of if you're really careful with your money. I wouldn't have been able to do it without accumulating significant savings beforehand.
Anything else it's comparable with a random person on the street.
I'd say we're actually worse than the average person at everything else. Too much of our brain is allocated to our research.
PhD level of sufficiently regular but transient discipline and hyperfocus.
All the AI companies would beg to differ
This triggered my shitpost Spidey senses. But what do I know. I never studied in the US.
I've been told the French is rather mediocre compared to the English.
Pebble seems to be headed in a good direction ever since it got bought back by the original founder.
So envious of all of you that have cheap farmer's markets. Where I am, my choices are
- Grocery store: cheap, highly variable quality, support the conglomerates
- Farmer's market: expensive, probably higher quality, support local farmers
They're so much fun to walk through though. If only I could actually afford to buy from them.
I can understand objecting to it if it's used as training data, but it sounds like this is basically just "indexing" the contents of the book, similar to how a search engine works.
Academic Authors: $0
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This should be in the negatives. We have to pay to get papers published in these traditional journals.

An educated guess is still technically a guess